{"id":681,"date":"2011-01-31T22:02:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2011-01-31T22:18:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T03:18:46","slug":"cyclone-yasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Yasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having having to cope with Cyclone Anthony last week in Australia, Cyclone Yasi is expected to be a very strong category 3 or possible category 4 storm. This in an area that has already suffered with some flooding in November although the major flooding was further south near Brisbane. There is a very distinct possibility of powerful flash flooding may occur with Cyclone Yasi. This storm is predicted to be one of the fiercest storms the region has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/floodwater_homes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/floodwater_homes.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Roofs of houses are visible above flood waters west of Brisbane- photo from Reuters\" width=\"399\" height=\"244\" align=\"center\" size-full wp-image-683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/floodwater_homes.jpg 399w, http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/floodwater_homes-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This storm is huge and it is life-threatening,&#8221; Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said. &#8220;I know many of us will feel that Queensland has already borne about as much as we can bear when it comes to disasters and storms, but more is being asked of us \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and I am confident that we are able to rise to this next challenge.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/xxirbbmgms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/xxirbbmgms.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"satellite image of Cyclone Yasi\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" align=\"center size-full wp-image-684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/xxirbbmgms.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/xxirbbmgms-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/xxirngms.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/xxirngms.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Enhanced IR satellite image of Cyclone Yasi\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-685\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/xxirngms.gif 800w, http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/xxirngms-300x228.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having having to cope with Cyclone Anthony last week in Australia, Cyclone Yasi is expected to be a very strong category 3 or possible category 4 storm. This in an area that has already suffered with some flooding in November although the major flooding was further south near Brisbane. There is a very distinct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}